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MakingI Clasps and Hooks. No. 31.038. Patemed 1an. 1,1861.

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HENRI SCHIEUEHLE, OF XEIV YOl't-K, N. Y.

PUNCH FQR MAKING SLDES FOR HOOP-SKIRTS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,088, dated January 1, 1861.

To all lwhom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HENRI SGHEUERLE, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dies for Cuttingand Forming Metallic Slides and Tips of Ladies Hoop- Skirts, and I dohereby declare that' the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification.

Figure 1, is a front elevation of a press with the improved male andfemale dies secured therein. Fig. 2, is a view of the under part of themale dies, full size. Fig. 3, is a top view of the female die plate,also full size. Fig. 4, is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 5,represents a side and end view of one of the metallic slides produced bythe first set of dies. Fig. 6, represents a side and end view of one ofthe tips produced by the third additional set of dies. Fig. 7, is a topview of a strip of sheet metal in the state it appears after theportions necessary for the slides have been punched or cut therefrom.Fig. 8, is a top view of the said strip of metal after the tips havebeen cut and formed therefrom.

Similar let-ters in the figures refer to corresponding parts.

This invention consists in securing in the same stock with the diesorpunches at present employed for cutting and formingthe slides of hoopskirts, an additional die or punch, and forming a corresponding femaledie, in the forming plate below the same, in such a manner as to causethe bodies of metal, heretofore thrown away, between the portions cutoutby the first mentioned dies, to be cut and formed into tips for bindingthe ends of the bustle hoops, and for other purposes.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the press represented in Fig. 1, A, is the stock, in which thepunching dies are secured, which projects from the lower portion of theplate B. This plate B, is dovetailed to a plate C, rising from a baseplate C, secured to the table, and receives an up and down motion infront of the plate C, through the agency of an eccentric cam D, securedat the end of the main driving shaft.

On top of the portion of the base plate C', immediately below the stockA, is secured a plate E, having dovetails next its upper surface, inwhich is inserted a corresponding dovetailed plate G, containing thefemale forming dies. The male dies or tools H, I, and theircorresponding female dies K, L, are designed for cutting and forming theslides S, and are made and operated in every respect similar to those atpresent in use.

In the same stock with the other male dies II, I, I secure by the usualscrew, an additional male die or tool M, of nearly the same thickness,and about two thirds the passage of the wings of the tip T, between theside surfaces of the two.

The lower surface of this additional die or tool M, is on the samehorizontal plane with the lower surface of the die I, and is in suchrelation to the same, as to cause it to strike in its descent the bodyof metal immediately next the space cut out by the first set of dies H,K, at the same time that the second set of dies I, L, are forming thebody of metal thus previously cut out.

From the foregoing it will be observed that at the time of cutting andforming into a slide the portion of the metal strip corresponding withthe shape of the firstset of dies H, K, the additional vset of dies M,M, are made to cut and form into a tip T, the body of metal between thecorresponding port-ions previously cut out, and immediately in advance,and are thus not only instrumental in saving the metal between the saidportions, from which the slides are formed, which heretofore went towaste, but also enable the press, at the same time that it is cuttingand forming the slides, and without extra labor, to produce an equalnumberof tips from the strips of metal passed between the male andfemale dies. In this manner any size and form of tip, corresponding withthe size and form of the first set of dies H, K, can be produced fromthe heretofore waste metal, the only precaution necessary being to makethe additional set of dies M, M, of the requisite Width and thickness tocorrespond with the tional set of (lies M, M', for cutting and intendedlength and Width of the tips they forming the tips from the -portions ofthe 10 :1re to eut and form. metal strip which heretofore Went to Waste,

What I cla-iin as new and desire to securel as herein set forth. 5 byLetters Patent is HENRI SCHEUERLE.

Combining with the male and female dies Witnesses: H, I, K, L, forcutting and forming the ABRAM S. CLARK, slides from the strips of metal,the -addil E. MAHER.

